La purga is one of Juan Filloy’s most original and amusing novels, and at the same time one of his most secret works. Written in 1977, a year after the military coup, the plot centers on an international painting congress (the Ortho World Painting Conference), organized by an omnipotent Tyrant with the intention of annihilating the representatives of Modern Art and returning painting to the canons of the Renaissance. Hilarious and erudite, playing with science fiction and fantastic literature, The Purge makes an exhaustive record of avant-garde aesthetics (including their delusions), and at the same time denounces a supposedly enlightened Authoritarianism that leads to Crime and Holocaust.